to be a little chuffed that tommee tippee can't claim to be anti-colic anymore

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I always had a problem with the idea of plastic air valves being "closer to nature"...my suspicions were aroused when two separate inspections of my boobs revealed no such device.

Anyway, hopefully they will now force all their competitors to drop this ridiculous claim also!

ruling

Quite a few posters need to google "causality" and the actual medical definition of "colic"

Milf yes, every website I have ever looked on says that wind can contribute to colic, some people I know do just think wind = colic but I disagree on the whole. In my DSs case it seemed to be the main trigger of it though, never sussed out what the other ones were, didnt need to after switching bottles, thankfully

We tried colief a few times before changing bottles but it did absolutely nothing. But my local docs prescribe it which was a bit of a surprise, and it worked for a friends baby where the anti colic bottles made the baby worse!

My DD supposedly had colic for 12 weeks. I don't fully believe it exists and put it down to being newborn and wanting to go back in utero. If I have another I am going to put them in the Kari me all day.

ata yup coincidence is something that only happens to other people...

So wind maybe an exacerbating factor to colic in a minority of babies. Lack of enzyme can be a contributing factor to colic in a tiny minority of babies. The majority of babies have colic because they don't want to be out of the womb and are finding the world a fairly horrible and nasty place. They can be helped by any number of parenting techniques that have been clinically demonstrated to help.

If TT can produce evidence that their bottles reduce colic in a double blind trial of decent numbers then they may claim to help some babies with specifically wind exacerbated colic. (They have not done this and hence cannot currently).

Coleif also recently got done by ASA for claiming their products helped babies with colic because their clinical evidence only indicated that it helped a small number of susceptible babies (in plain english, it only helps babies which lack the enzyme which the vast majority don't.)

So all in all go ASA . Because the last thing you need when your baby is screaming more than 3 hours of every day is snake oil salesman.

No, plenty of coincidences happen to me. The fact the bottles made a total difference just want one of them :)